ILYA JONES ’10 DOCUMENTS AND PROMOTES THE PUBLIC HEALTH WORK OF THE MALARIA CONSORTIUM.
At the same time, I collaborate with NGOs and civil-society organizations to build on the progress made through the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women and Human Rights Council. Here at the School of Law we have a Human Rights Clinic, and I also chair the board of Human Rights Advocates, which we started after my graduate school days at UC-Berkeley. HRA has consultative status at the UN and takes our law students as part of its delegations to sessions in New York City and Geneva. With my human rights expe- rience—internationally in Geneva and at the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo, as well as at the local level—I can help to “demystify” the UN, explaining how people really can participate in its deliberations. As co-chair of Amnesty International’s Ginetta Sagan Fund, aiding women working on behalf of women and girls in areas where human rights violations are widespread, I am in awe of our award winners each year—their courage and strength, their determination in spite of all odds. They have survived threats on their lives, imprisonment, rape, torture, and still they demonstrate such humanity and optimism. There is still a long way to go in promoting and protect- ing the rights of women and girls. I am gratified when I see more and more women’s groups, grassroots activists, using the human rights framework to advocate for themselves.
Projects against malaria
Ilya Jones ’10 lives in London and works for the interna- tional Malaria Consortium, supporting research, public education, and medical access projects in Africa and Asia.
The chance to study abroad in Japan for my junior year gave me a taste for living overseas, something I haven’t been able to shake. After Skidmore, I spent a year teaching English in Russia. Despite the cold, I loved it there: I got to practice my Russian every day and eat chicken kiev (also every day). Then I attended the London School of Econom- ics for a master’s in international development. Hoping to stay in London, I applied for an internship at Malaria Consortium, a global health organization that seeks to reduce the burden of malaria and other major childhood illnesses in Africa and Asia. A few months into that, I ap- plied for my current position as communications officer. My job requires a bit of everything—that’s why I like it. I have my core duties writing blogs, editing publications, managing the website, and writing articles for the online version of our partner newspaper, the Guardian. But I also support a bunch of departments, helping with document layouts and web development. Recently, I have been work- ing a lot with our French translator, who is based in Kenya,
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